What Foods Bring Back Memories Of Your Childhood

Ellios Pizza Squares
Fried Spam Sandwiches
Grandma's oatmeal or farina made with either whole or evaporated milk, sugar, cinnamon stick, and vanilla extract mmm.
Strawberry frosted poptarts
Tang
King Vitamin Cereal
Vienna Sausages
Cheese wiz
Gushers
Peanut Chews
Chick-o-sticks
Homemade deep fried garlic dumplings with red bean stew on those days we didn't have money for anything else, yet somehow it was still the best meal ever.
Cheese pastelillos
Goya flan

Fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy, and corn. A regular staple several times a week growing up on a farm.

Took me years after moving to town to eat fried chicken, drink milk (wasn't fresh from the cow anymore) and eat eggs. Ate too many eggs on the farm since we had an abundance. I love them again now.

1) Corn pops
2) Cinnamon toast (put in the oven on broil, not toasted in a toaster)
3) White rice with soy sauce (ate LOTS of this during rough times)
4) White rice with cream of mushroom soup
5) Sorbet push up pops remind me of the yummy Flintstone ones I used to eat in the summer
6) "Behave Ralph"... that's just what we call it (and to this day still call it that!). We called it that because of the commercial from the 1980's for kielbasa with one character saying to another "behave Ralph!" so whenever my mom made kapusniak (kielbasa, potatoes, carrots and cabbage) we just refer to it as "BEHAVE RALPH!"
7) Every time I see wheat thins I get the urge to make ghetto nachos like I did as a tween
8) BULGOGI. We had Korean neighbors who brought me homemade bulgogi for my 10th birthday. First time I ever tried it and I was hooked thereafter. Before they moved they gave the recipe to my mom
9) Mini pot pies that come in a box
10) "Cheese stuff"... it's a cheese dip that my grandma and my dad make. They just mix a buncha crap in a bowl. Cream cheese, bleu cheese crumbles, feta, worcestershire sauce...my grandma mixes in olives when she makes hers but my dad omits them. Not sure what else they put in it but I definitely need to get the recipe. It's amazing on celery and carrot sticks. They still make it during holiday get togethers. I'd skip the turkey, gravy etc and just eat the cheese stuff !

Birds Eye fish fingers - my Dad worked for Birds Eye and money was tight when we were growing up so we ate a lot of Birds Eye foods from the staff shop.

The other one is a bit odd - "hedgehog".
The story was recounted at my Mum's funeral about one of her signature dishes. There would be a big build up before someone new (often a grandchild) was indoctrinated into the delights of Mum's hedgehog. Plenty of viewing of the hedgehog cooking in the oven and tales of how the hedgehog was captured....
It was only revealed at the last minute that the "hedgehog" was actually a mixture of savoury beef mince and mashed potato moulded into the shape of a hedgehog and the "spines" and facial features were made out of bacon.

Macaroni and cheese (the kind with the bright yellow powder) with a can of tuna mixed in,
Fried bologna sandwiches with globs of mayo,
"Porcupine Meatballs" which were ground beef meatballs with cooked rice inside them so they looked like porcupines.
Oil and vinegar cucumber salad with salt and garlic.

My mom made due with a small budget to feed 3 growing youngsters so I don't actually eat macaroni and cheese or fried bologna anymore but get a hankering for them every so often. The meatballs and salad I still totally eat when she makes it and invites me over! I've tried to replicate both recipes myself and can never quite get them right, she's got a magic touch I tell ya!

Buttered noodles, most definitely. Oh, and lumpy Cream of Wheat. Yes, LUMPY Cream of Wheat. It is a big joke now that I am an adult. My mother would be the first to tell you that she wasn't much of a cook. Her Cream of Wheat had humongous globs of cereal stuck together in balls. I got used to it, and came to like it that way. So much so, that I don't even EAT it as an adult. After all, I can't replicate the lumps, ha ha ha. As for the buttered noodles, it's pretty hard to boil a noodle incorrectly and melt some butter over the top. I could live on that stuff as a kid, and often did, lol. Wow, no wonder I have an unhealthy relationship with food! thanks for posting. I've had a few good giggles over this here this morning!

my mum's homemade buttermilk biscuits with syrup. we used to have them on weekend mornings as a family breakfast sometimes. so yummy!

Cremola Foam, but nobody's going to remember that that isn't Scottish or Northern Irish....!

Raspberry jam... my granny used to always make her own, hers was the only stuff I would eat and I've never eaten it since she died.

Kraft Cheesy Pasta with bacon and mushrooms mixed in. It was a Sunday lunchtime dinner because we had to dash home from 'church' and out again to my sister's gymnastics class, so Sunday lunchtimes were always super quick meals. Oh, and tomato soup is still not worth having if it's not Heinz... that was the other Sunday regular... :laugh:

Tequenos: (Venezuelan cheese sticks, but better).




Pasticho: (Venezuelan lasagna, but better).




Chicharrones: (Venezuelan Pork Rinds, but better).



Churros:




Latkes: (Jewish potato cakes, but better).





I'm a Hispanic Jew. When it comes to food, I was born screwed :bigsmile:

Cadbury's white chocolate buttons. When I was little, a lot of the neighbours and friends of my parents would give me money to buy sweets. I was too young really to pick my own but my mum knew I liked them, so she'd always choose them for me. I don't see them in shops as much any more but every time I see a packet, I have to buy them. My mum's not alive any more so standing in the shop picking the packet I want (they have different pictures on each packet! ) reminds me of when I did it with her as a kid and it makes me smile.
Of course, they're probably part of the reason why I ended up needing this website, but I'm happily ignoring that.

Terry's chocolate orange, now you are talking!! Got one in my Christmas stocking every year. In fact I still do, even though I am 46. I try to eat it all on my own but my daughter has inherited my love of them and can sniff it out as soon as I start to tap it and unwrap it, and she insists on sharing that bit of luxury!

Mangoes in the fridge. To me it's the smell of Christmas.

Biscuits and gravy. Every time I spent the night with my Nana, I would wake up to the smell of biscuits and gravy. With it would be fried potatoes, eggs and fried apples. My mom didn't really cook and having a homemade meal was a huge treat.

Good childhood food memories; Fish fingers & chips, Mum's homemade Chicken soup, Chicken and Rice and Peas (Traditional Jamaican dish) and Weekend treats at the local Wimpey (Burger place).

Bad childhood food memories: Fray Bentos Meat pies in a can :noway: and hot corned beef :sick: Lol!